1############################################################################### 2 3# Europe 4 5# EU rules are for the European Union, previously known as the EC, EEC, 6# Common Market, etc. 7 8# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 9Rule EU 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00u 1:00 S 10Rule EU 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - 11Rule EU 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00u 0 - 12Rule EU 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - 13Rule EU 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S 14Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - 15# The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: 16# Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 17# of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements. 18# http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0084:EN:NOT 19 20# W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time. 21Rule W-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S 22Rule W-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - 23Rule W-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00s 0 - 24Rule W-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - 25Rule W-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S 26Rule W-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 - 27 28# Older C-Eur rules are for convenience in the tables. 29# From 1977 on, C-Eur differs from EU only in that C-Eur uses standard time. 30Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S 31Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 32Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S 33Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 - 34Rule C-Eur 1940 only - Apr 1 2:00s 1:00 S 35Rule C-Eur 1942 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 - 36Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00s 1:00 S 37Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - 38Rule C-Eur 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S 39# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 40Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - 41# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-07-13): 42# 43# I found what is probably a typo of 2:00 which should perhaps be 2:00s 44# in the C-Eur rule from tz database version 2008d (this part was 45# corrected in version 2008d). The circumstantial evidence is simply the 46# tz database itself, as seen below: 47# 48# Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 49# 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 50# 51# Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 52# 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 53# 54# Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 55# 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 56# 57# Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - 58# Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 59# Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 60# 61# The rule line to be changed is: 62# 63# Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - 64# 65# It seems that Paris, Monaco, Rule France, Rule Belgium all agree on 66# 2:00 standard time, e.g. 3:00 local time. However there are no 67# countries that use C-Eur rules in September 1945, so the only items 68# affected are apparently these fictitious zones that translate acronyms 69# CET and MET: 70# 71# Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 72# Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT 73# 74# It this is right then the corrected version would look like: 75# 76# Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 77# 78# A small step for mankind though 8-) 79Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 80Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S 81Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 82Rule C-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - 83Rule C-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 84Rule C-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 85Rule C-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - 86 87# E-Eur differs from EU only in that E-Eur switches at midnight local time. 88Rule E-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 89Rule E-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 90Rule E-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 91Rule E-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 92Rule E-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 93Rule E-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 94# Hungary 95# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-15): 96# Dates for 1916-1945 are taken from: 97# Oross A. Jelen a múlt jövője: a nyári időszámítás Magyarországon 1916-1945. 98# National Archives of Hungary (2012-10-29). 99# http://mnl.gov.hu/a_het_dokumentuma/a_nyari_idoszamitas_magyarorszagon_19161945.html 100# This source does not always give times, which are taken from Shanks 101# & Pottenger (which disagree about the dates). 102# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 103Rule Hungary 1918 only - Apr 1 3:00 1:00 S 104Rule Hungary 1918 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - 105Rule Hungary 1919 only - Apr 15 3:00 1:00 S 106Rule Hungary 1919 only - Nov 24 3:00 0 - 107Rule Hungary 1945 only - May 1 23:00 1:00 S 108Rule Hungary 1945 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 109Rule Hungary 1946 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S 110Rule Hungary 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 111Rule Hungary 1947 1949 - Apr Sun>=4 2:00s 1:00 S 112Rule Hungary 1950 only - Apr 17 2:00s 1:00 S 113Rule Hungary 1950 only - Oct 23 2:00s 0 - 114Rule Hungary 1954 1955 - May 23 0:00 1:00 S 115Rule Hungary 1954 1955 - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 116Rule Hungary 1956 only - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 117Rule Hungary 1956 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 118Rule Hungary 1957 only - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 S 119Rule Hungary 1957 only - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - 120Rule Hungary 1980 only - Apr 6 1:00 1:00 S 121# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 122Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct 123 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 124 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1941 Apr 8 125 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 126 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1980 Sep 28 2:00s 127 1:00 EU CE%sT